How much RAM you need for gaming depends greatly on what games you want to play, and how you want to play them. If you want to play the latest AAA releases at the highest possible settings, then it helps to make sure every component in your gaming PC is top notch, including RAM. However, if you want to play less demanding or indie games at lower settings, you'll get by with much less memory.

While every gamer and every gaming PC has different needs for the types of games they play, there is a general rule of thumb about RAM that applies across broad categories.

For most gamers, 16GB of RAM will be more than enough. 16GB of RAM will meet the minimum and recommended specs for every modern game, even the most high-end ones. It won’t necessarily be enough for peak performance in every game, but there’s no game you can’t play with this much.

For most games, except the best AAA releases of the past few years, 16GB is even double the recommended amount.